Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett

PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, DOC Riceyman Steps Henry Earlforward a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller has retired from life to devote himself and his wife Violet to a consuming passion for money Miserliness long disguised as procrastination can become a fatal illness Bennett s bleak story is saved however by the Earlforwards maid Elsie buxom warm ignorant and sublime in her spontaneous greed for life .

Riceyman Steps is a modernist masterpiece a profound psychological and symbolic exploration of the forces of love and death

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